Baling-press



v (No Model.)

0. J. TRESDBLL.

BALING-YPRESS.

Patented Nov. 20

UNITE@ STATES PATENT Garros.

OTIS J. TRUESDELL, OF FARLINGTON, KANSAS.

BALI`NGPRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,086, dated November 20, 1888.

Application filed May 5, 1888. Serial No. 272,929. (No model.)

.To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, Oris J. TRUEsDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Farlington, in the county of Crawford and State of Kansas, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Ealing-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement 'in balingpresses; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of my improved press. Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly in horizontal section; and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the cam-plate, a portion of the pitman, and connections between the same and its connections.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the frame-work of my improved press, having the usual feed-opening,l3, and the pressbox C. In the outer end of the frame-work I mount the pivot-pin or king-bolt D, on which the sweep E and the cam-plate F are f ulcrumed. The sweep and the camplate are mounted loosely on the kingbolt or pivot-pin, and are not connected together. The cam-plate is provided on its upper surface with a series of lugs, G,which are acted upon by the sweep to actuate the cam-plate, and thereby operate the plunger, as will be presently more fully described. The inner end or edge of the camplate is formed on the arc of a circle, and is provided with agroove, H, running its entire length. The canrplate is further provided on its side edges with the lateral shoulders J J, the function of which will presently appear.

K designates the pitman,connected at its inner end to the plunger, as will be readily understood.

L L designate two links, which are pivoted to the side edges of the cam-plate near the shoulders J J, and have their outer free ends connected to the outer end of thc pitman by cables M, as shown.

N N designate two steadyingbars, which have their inner ends pivoted to the outer end of the pitman and their outer ends pivotally mounted on the king-bolt or pi vot-pin.

From the foregoing description, taken in 5o connection with the accompanying drawings, the operation of my device will be readily understood. The hay is placed in the press-box in the usual manner and the sweep moved from side to side.

It will be observed that the sweep is not connected to the cam-plate, and that the lugs on said plate are arranged at a distance apart slightly greater than the width of the sweep. The sweep is thus allowed to acquire a slight momentum before coming into contact with the lugs on the cam-plate, and the said plate is consequently set in motion very easily with out any sudden jar, as the momentum of the sweep aids the force applied to the outer end of the same in overcoming the inertia of the cam-plate and setting itin motion. The camplate, being thus set in motion, will swing around until one of its shoulders J comes into contact with the adjacent link L, when it will carry the said link around with the plate, thereby drawing on the pitman through the cable. The steadying-bars, besides causing the pitman to move smoothly and evenly, serve to prevent its being drawn from side to side in a straight line and give it a circular movement, thereby causing the plunger to move in and out at each stroke of the sweep.

Having thus described my invention, what 8o I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. In a baling-press, the combination of the king-bolt with the sweep and the cam-plate independently mounted thereon, the pitman 8.5 connected to the cam-plate, and the steadying-bars mounted'on the king-bolt and pivoted to the pitman, as set forth.

mounted on Said king-bolt, the said oun- In testimony that Iolam the foregoing as my plate having shoulders on its sides, with the own I have hereto affixed mysignature in preslinks pivoted to the oamplate adjacent: to ence of two witnesses. said shoulders, the pibman, the cables con- OTIS J. TRUESDELL.

5 meeting the links to the pitman, and the /Titnesses;

steadying-bars mounted on the king-bolt and B. J. MARSHALL, Jr., pvoted t=o the pibman, as set forth. E. G. SIGGERS. 

